That code deserves what it gets, good and hard. Including exceptions.
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On Jan 14, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
I was thinking of
function thirdPartyLib(val) {
return val ="0";
}
thirdPartyLib(myLong); // exception
thirdPartyLib(Number(myLong)); // works
On Jan 14, 2014, at 22:50, "Brendan Eich" wrote:
Domenic Denicola wrote:
Heh, yes, damned if you do, etc. etc. I was trying to think up a practical example where this would cause problems (e.g. in CSS libraries strings and numbers often mix), but all my cases involved an `=-using third party library, in which case you'd just pass it `Number(myLong)` instead of `myLong` directly and move on with your life.
Wait, number works:
js> 0L =0
true
js> 0L + 1
1L
Are you thinking of string?
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